SHEBANG! sessions: Life Drawing

hosted on Wurundjeri/ Merri Merri land

A curated class-meets-happening, join us for a lesson in Life Drawing SHEBANG! style. All levels of drawing experience welcome. Fierce (role)models serving you classic and experimental poses hosted by experienced sassy artists/ teachers. Materials provided.

fortnightly Fridays from September 5th- 31st October inclusive
6:30pm doors open
7pm mark-making lesson*
7:25pm-9pm doors locked - latecomers to wait in atrium for entry

9:30pm venue closes

*various professional models & different mark-making lesson each session- see ticket link for more information.

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$55 seat

or

$60 easel

or

$200 easel x 5 week term

class size intentionally intimate, please contact us if your preferred ticket is sold out

late comers after 7:20pm will be shown in during the first break

strictly no cameras

SESSION 1: charcoal

MODEL 1: Willow J Conway (she/her) @wilziaak

“Willow J is a burlesque queen, past stripper, current swerker, mother of twins, and the fierce front woman of the post-punk feminist rock group The BandShe!“

20 minute live tutorial engages a learn-by-doing approach to mark making and covers a different topic each session. 2 hours of live model poses structured to build up skill and confidence. Paper, boards, pencils and charcoal provided. Refreshments available to purchase from our speakeasy bar.

More about the model: Willow J Conway (she/her) @wilziaak on insta

Fusing acting with burlesque, bouffon and butoh, Willow is a multi-disciplined theatre practitioner who has run riot as a performer and teacher across the globe for over 20 years. She has performed on iconic local stages such as La Mama, 45 Downstairs, Chapel off Chapel and Theatre Works; danced in avant-garde butoh cabaret shows in Japan, Germany AND Mildura; and with her most recent venture, she's been screaming her feminist heart out as the frontwoman of the post-punk theatrically fuelled rock group The BandShe! Willow’s Mx Burlesque Australia 2016 award winning butt has performed nationally and internationally in ohhh sooo sparkly shows and venues including Burlesque Hall of Fame (Las Vegas), London Burlesque Festival, The Spiegeltent, Finucane & Smith’s Dance Hall and The Aussie Flim Flam Revue (Tokyo).

HOSTS 1 : Miss Marina Perkovich, Erin Veronica Ender, Anne Wagner

Miss Marina Perkovich (she/her) www.marinaperkovich.weebly.com

Miss Marina is an accomplished visual artist engaging many mediums including drawing, printing, fabric manipulation and ceramics. She was also a prolific music photographer during the 80s and 90s, documenting musicians and bands including Nick Cave, Venom P. Stinger, The Seminal Rats, Corpse Grinders, Gas Babies and The Sacred Cowboys. Many of Marina's photos can be viewed in the Facebook group: "I got drunk at The Crystal Ballroom". Marina's body of photographic work is currently with the Victorian State Library being digitised for their collection and will be available on their website in due course.

Erin Veronica Ender (she/her) www.heandeve.com

Designed and built in 2015 by Henrik Ender and Erin Veronica Ender (he&eve) BIGBANG x SHEBANG! studio was architecturally engineered for social and cultural change. Erin grew a love for the power of inspiring students while tutoring and designing content for students in Architecture, Interior and Spatial Design for RMIT, Swinburne and Monash Uni for 2 decades and counting. Erin's artistic practice is centered around the production of ephemeral environments (eg. happenings/ exhibitions) showcasing the audience's everyday theatre (eg. behaviours/ costume) contributing to our collective cultural identity here in so-called Australia.

Anne Wagner (she/they) www.horizontalthinkingcom.wordpress.com

An educator in the Art, Design and Architecture department at Monash University and Monash College as well as a Naarm-based spatial architect whose work navigates through her dreamscapes as an oneironaut. Anne is passionate about the invert tool as a metaphor and within the editing programs, and combining her interdisciplinary skills into moving images. Her practice takes on an auto-ethnographic approach and encompasses her felt eco-angst through dream…time…and our internal landscape to create new spatial realities.

IMAGE CREDIT: Guy Ritani SHEBANG! showcase 2022 photographed by Kennie.

*Hosts acknowledge that these happenings are performed on the unseeded lands of the Wurundjeri-willam and Merri Merri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation. We pay deep respects to Elders past and present- this always was and always will be Aboriginal land.*